Apparently the RIAA tried to get a law through congress last year
making it a infringement of copyright to simply have copies of
copyrighted files in one's shared folder.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070730-attempted-infringment-appears-in-new-house-intellectual-property-bill.html
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Under this law, 'attempted infringement' or 'making available' would
have been actionable and the record companies would not have had to
prove that actual infringement took place.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who
could not hear the music.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
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